From b8af72b402f5e8cb7db46dde202ba2b25976ed79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Romain Quetiez <romain.quetiez@combodo.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:47:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Modules: added a mean to cache data that will be reset upon
 compilation. To be used in conjunction with ModuleDesign.

SVN:trunk[3877]
---
 application/utils.inc.php                | 15 ++++++++++++---
 setup/applicationinstaller.class.inc.php |  8 ++++++--
 setup/runtimeenv.class.inc.php           |  6 +++++-
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/application/utils.inc.php b/application/utils.inc.php
index 65a77b7c6..b4dc1ef82 100644
--- a/application/utils.inc.php
+++ b/application/utils.inc.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-// Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Combodo SARL
+// Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Combodo SARL
 //
 //   This file is part of iTop.
 //
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 /**
  * Static class utils
  *
- * @copyright   Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Combodo SARL
+ * @copyright   Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Combodo SARL
  * @license     http://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0
  */
 
@@ -768,7 +768,16 @@ class utils
 			return ITOP_DEFAULT_ENV;
 		}
 	}
-	
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns a path to a folder into which any module can store cache data
+	 * The corresponding folder is created or cleaned upon code compilation
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public static function GetCachePath()
+	{
+		return APPROOT.'data/cache-'.self::GetCurrentEnvironment().'/';
+	}
 	/**
 	 * Merge standard menu items with plugin provided menus items
 	 */
diff --git a/setup/applicationinstaller.class.inc.php b/setup/applicationinstaller.class.inc.php
index e70e469c4..6224630fc 100644
--- a/setup/applicationinstaller.class.inc.php
+++ b/setup/applicationinstaller.class.inc.php
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?php
-// Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Combodo SARL
+// Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Combodo SARL
 //
 //   This file is part of iTop.
 //
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ require_once(APPROOT.'setup/backup.class.inc.php');
  * while displaying a progress bar, or in an unattended manner
  * (for example from the command line), to run all the steps
  * in one go.
- * @copyright   Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Combodo SARL
+ * @copyright   Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Combodo SARL
  * @license     http://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0
  */
 
@@ -522,6 +522,10 @@ class ApplicationInstaller
 			//$aCompilerLog = $oMFCompiler->GetLog();
 			//SetupPage::log_info(implode("\n", $aCompilerLog));
 			SetupPage::log_info("Data model successfully compiled to '$sTargetPath'.");
+
+			$sCacheDir = APPROOT.'/data/cache-'.$sEnvironment.'/';
+			Setuputils::builddir($sCacheDir);
+			Setuputils::tidydir($sCacheDir);
 		}
 		
 		// Special case to patch a ugly patch in itop-config-mgmt
diff --git a/setup/runtimeenv.class.inc.php b/setup/runtimeenv.class.inc.php
index 56d281558..8d6560784 100644
--- a/setup/runtimeenv.class.inc.php
+++ b/setup/runtimeenv.class.inc.php
@@ -424,7 +424,11 @@ class RunTimeEnvironment
 			self::MakeDirSafe($sTargetDir);
 			$oMFCompiler = new MFCompiler($oFactory);
 			$oMFCompiler->Compile($sTargetDir, null, $bUseSymLinks);
-			
+
+			$sCacheDir = APPROOT.'data/cache-'.$this->sTargetEnv;
+			Setuputils::builddir($sCacheDir);
+			Setuputils::tidydir($sCacheDir);
+
 			require_once(APPROOT.'/core/dict.class.inc.php');
 			MetaModel::ResetCache(md5(APPROOT).'-'.$this->sTargetEnv);
 		}